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New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/new-10-gbe-usb-adapters-cooler-smaller-cheaper/
266•calcifer•6h ago•124 comments

Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-ant...
633•elffjs•20h ago•623 comments

How to Implement an FPS Counter

https://vplesko.com/posts/how_to_implement_an_fps_counter.html
48•vplesko•3d ago•3 comments

A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU

https://clad.you/blog/posts/questionnaire-mlp/
86•arkadiuss•3d ago•14 comments

Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)

https://github.com/nex-crm/wuphf
103•najmuzzaman•3h ago•45 comments

A web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp

https://github.com/nakagami/grdpwasm
8•mariuz•1h ago•2 comments

Humpback whales are forming super-groups

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260416-the-humpback-super-groups-swarming-the-seas
136•andsoitis•3d ago•67 comments

Replace IBM Quantum back end with /dev/urandom

https://github.com/yuvadm/quantumslop/blob/25ad2e76ae58baa96f6219742459407db9dd17f5/URANDOM_DEMO.md
194•pigeons•11h ago•30 comments

Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay

https://unsung.aresluna.org/plain-text-has-been-around-for-decades-and-its-here-to-stay/
130•rbanffy•11h ago•49 comments

A Man Who Invented the Future

https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/the-man-who-invented-the-future
12•apollinaire•3d ago•2 comments

Paraloid B-72

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraloid_B-72
210•Ariarule•3d ago•41 comments

My audio interface has SSH enabled by default

https://hhh.hn/rodecaster-duo-fw/
263•hhh•16h ago•81 comments

The mail sent to a video game publisher

https://www.gamefile.news/p/panic-mail-arco-despelote-time-flies-thank-goodness-teeth
62•colinprince•3d ago•1 comments

Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

https://kevinlynagh.com/newsletter/2026_04_overthinking/
452•alcazar•22h ago•111 comments

Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75877
191•wise_blood•2d ago•59 comments

PCR is a surprisingly near-optimal technology

https://nikomc.com/2026/04/22/pcr/
44•mailyk•2d ago•6 comments

Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do

https://alash3al.github.io/stash?_v01
78•alash3al•11h ago•35 comments

Panipat: The Rise of the Mughals

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/panipat-rise-mughals
4•Thevet•3d ago•0 comments

Cosmology with Geometry Nodes

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/cosmology-with-geometry-nodes/
74•shankysingh•11h ago•1 comments

Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port

https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
147•andsoitis•8h ago•40 comments

There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21691
263•jamie-simon•18h ago•118 comments

Escrow Security for iCloud Keychain

https://support.apple.com/guide/security/escrow-security-for-icloud-keychain-sec3e341e75d/web
21•gurjeet•5h ago•4 comments

Email could have been X.400 times better

https://buttondown.com/blog/x400-vs-smtp-email
193•maguay•2d ago•161 comments

Education must go beyond the mere production of words

https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/schnell-repairing-the-ruins
79•signor_bosco•12h ago•25 comments

Work with the garage door up (2024)

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Work_with_the_garage_door_up
166•jxmorris12•3d ago•117 comments

The Classic American Diner

https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2026/04/the-classic-american-diner/
230•NaOH•17h ago•138 comments

DeepSeek v4

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260424
1950•impact_sy•1d ago•1496 comments

A Powerful New 'QR Code' Untangles Math's Knottiest Knots

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-powerful-new-qr-code-untangles-maths-knottiest-knots-20260422/
40•defrost•2d ago•14 comments

Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

https://itsfoss.com/news/firefox-ships-brave-adblock-engine/
283•nreece•10h ago•142 comments

Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations

https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20260424-filco-diatec/
127•gslin•20h ago•47 comments
Open in hackernews

A Man Who Invented the Future

https://hedgehogreview.com/web-features/thr/posts/the-man-who-invented-the-future
12•apollinaire•3d ago

Comments

shevy-java•1h ago
Alan Kay.

(Ok ok ... the real quote is actually: "The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Invent It", and I actually think he also had that quote from someone else, earlier, but I forgot the name.)

randallsquared•43m ago
This essay is--oddly--both threadbare and meandering, and has turns of phrase that look like they were kept from an earlier, tighter version, such as the second sentence's "may have [...] but by".